How to live without technology

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

IT IS difficult to go a few minutes without being on your phone or obsessively checking your social media updates. One man, though, appears to have managed that, and has banished modern technology from his life altogether.

Bagatelle to play Lough Rea Hotel

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

BAGATELLE, THE Irish band who created one of the most famous songs in the nation's rock catalogue, 'Summer In Dublin', play the Lough Rea Hotel and Spa on Thursday July 4.

GMIT Letterfrack students furniture exhibition

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

AN EXHIBITION of furniture, created by degree students of the GMIT's National Centre for Excellence in Furniture Design and Technology, in Letterfrack, has opened and will run throughout the summer.

Bend It Like Beckham director to give Fleadh Masterclass

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

WRITER/DIRECTORS Allison Anders and Gurinder Chadha, and the actor Will Forte, will give this year's Galway Film Fleadh masterclasses in screenwriting, directing, and acting.

Daters Wanted for New RTÉ2 series

Wed, Jun 26, 2019

Do dating apps have you on a road to nowhere? Could your Mam pick the love of your life? Does your Da know marriage material when he sees it? It’s time to find out if swiping right was all wrong. Could the secret be to just ask your parents?

Award winning Carl Donnelly for the KARLnival

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

CARL DONNELLY, winner of Chortle Best Club Comedian 2017, Chortle Best Newcomer 2007, and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2007, will headline the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

Fundraising film screening and quiz for Teach Solas

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

OUTITUDE, THE award winning documentary film charting the history of lesbian Ireland, is to be screened at the Pálás Cinema, as part of a fundraising drive to ensure the Teach Solais LGBT+ Resoirce Centre, on Merchant's Road, stays open.

Two Door Cinema Club - new album, GIAF 19 show

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THEY'RE BACK Jim, but perhaps not quite as you have heard them before? Ahead of the European tour that takes them to the Galway Arts Festival Big Top, Two Door Cinema Club have released their new album.

Abstract art in Kinvara

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

AN EXHIBITION of abstract painting by Debbie Browne, Mary Queally and Diana Rock, will be launched by the artist Patsy Connolly, in Kinvara Courthouse, tomorrow at 7.30pm.

Arts festival box office opens in new location

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

The Galway International Arts Festival opened its box office this week, in the new location of The Cornstore, Middle Street.

'Music can access emotions and evoke atmosphere instantaneously'

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

A HIGHLIGHT of the 2014 Galway International Arts Festival was Moonfish Theatre Company’s richly imaginative staging of Joseph O’Connor’s novel, Star Of The Sea, which traced the journey of Irish Famine survivors in their flight to America.

Leading Irish comics for the 2019 Laughter Loft

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THE BIGGEST laughs in the smallest room? It can only be that much loved Galway International Arts Festival institution - Gerry Mallon's Laughter Loft at The Ruby Room in The King's Head.

Fleadh to screen world premiere of Irish documentary Jihad Jane

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

IN MARCH 2010, the arrest on terror charges of a blonde, blue-eyed, American, who called herself ‘Jihad Jane’ made headlines around the world. Her story is now a major new documentary to be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Acclaimed folk singer Daoirí Farrell to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THERE ARE few folk/trad musicians in Ireland today as acclaimed and admired as Daoirí Farrell. Indeed, Dónal Lunny has called him "one of the most important traditional singers to emerge in the last decade".

Over The Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THERE ARE plenty of opportunities for poets to read their work in public, but far fewer for fiction writers, which is why the Over The Edge annual fiction slam, now in its 11th year, is such a valuable local institution.

Small Island - on stage and on screen

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

SMALL ISLAND, Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel, comes to the stage of Britain's National Theatre, and the Thursday June 27 performance will be broadcast live to The Eye, Wellpark, at 7pm.

Galway indie and electronic acts come together for Club Gardenia

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

CLUB TROPICANA, the amazing summer club night for people with intellectual disability, returns to the Black Box next week for its ninth annual outing, and has also been expanded to a three-day mini festival running from Wednesday June 26 to Friday 28.

The 'mesmerising' Her Crooked Heart

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

IN 2013, after two and a half years of marriage, Rachel Ries found herself touring a record around the world, accompanied by a stack of divorce papers in a pocket of her suitcase. She had taken a leap into the unknown.

A Japanese haunting at the Pálás

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

YUMIKO IS troubled by the notion that she brings death to people close to her. Following the loss of her grandmother and husband, she remarries, and begins to find happiness anew.

Hardy Buck's Martin Maloney - live in Galway

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

MARTIN MALONEY, the man behind Hardy Bucks' Eddie Durkan, will bring his new, blisteringly autobiographical ,comedy show, to the Róisín Dubh on Friday August 2 at 8pm.

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